Comment by wvenable
5 hours ago
That is the correct definition of vibe coding "fully giv[ing] in to the vibes, embrac[ing] exponentials, and forget[ting] that the code even exists."
I think we need another term for using an LLM to write code but absolutely not forgetting the code exists.
I often use LLMs to do refactoring and, by definition, refactoring cannot be vibe-coding because that's caring about the code.
Agent-assisted coding (AAC) is what I call it. Everyone else around me just calls it vibe-coding. I think this is going to be like "cyber" that we tried to refuse for so long.
Vibe-coding is a more marketable term. Agent-assisted coding doesn't have the same ring to it. Maybe "Agentive Coding". ChatGPT wasn't much help coming up with alternative here.
> I think we need another term for using an LLM to write code but absolutely not forgetting the code exists.
That is now what software engineering is.